I agree with this view because key ideas are an important part of a film to make it more interesting for the audience. In the film Blood Diamond directed by Edward Zwick some of the key ideas are: What is valuable and important, the devastation of war and exploitation of people and resources. These key ideas in the film help viewers to understand the film better.

The key idea of what is valuable is an important one in the film. The three main characters Maddy, Danny and Solomon all have something different that is valuable to them. Maddy is a journalist who travels around the world in search of a good story. She ends up in Sierra Leone to get a story about what is going on with the civil war over the diamonds but when she gets there she finds it hard to get any information about the diamond smuggling so she focuses on the welfare of the country and the people. In the film Maddy is shown to value the welfare of the Sierra Leone people. This is shown when Maddy is writing a story on her laptop and then Danny walks in. Maddy lets Danny know how important the welfare of the country is to her when she says, “Its not going to be enough to make it stop. People back home wouldn’t buy rings if they knew it cost someone else their hands.” Writing her stories does not have a big effect on the people in the western world they are too selfish to help the country out in their time of civil war. Another text I read is A Long Way Gone written by Ishmael Beah in that text the main character of the non-fiction text is Ishmael who is in the civil war in Sierra Leone at the same time as Maddy. He is a forced child soldier and he values his freedom.

Another key idea in Blood Diamond is the devastation of war. The film shows how war is devastating because many lives are lost and most of the lives lost are civilians who aren't involved in the war at all. An example of the devastation of war is when the rebels burst into Solomon’s village and kill nearly everyone while on their...

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This movie begins as a man named Solomon gets captured when the rebels of a war that’s going on, invade Solomon’s village. Solomon becomes enslaved and is forced to work in the diamond fields under the command of Captain Poison. When he got captured he got separated from his family. The rebels group that captured Solomon is called the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). The RUFD use the diamonds to support and fund their war effort. They trade the diamonds for guns and armed weapons.
During his time working in the RUF diamond fields, Solomon finds a pink diamond inside a broken pipe in the fields. Solomon says that he has to go to the restroom, but he really tires hides the diamond and bury it. Solomon doesn’t know it but Captain Poison sees him try to stash the diamond away. Right before Caption Poison is about to get the diamond that Solomon hid, there is an attack by government troops, and both he and Solomon are taken prisoner. Another man named Danny Archer was also taken prisoner, who is of assistance to Solomon during the movie. While in prison Captain Poison finds out about the large diamond and tries to hunt it down. He arranges for Solomon’s release from prison and offers to help find his family in exchange for the diamond.
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2 March 2013 BloodDiamondsBloodDiamonds explores the underground world of the diamond trade in Sierra Leone, where rare diamonds are used to fund military rebels at war. The film is based on Archer, a man with a survival instinct and a passion for collecting conflict diamonds. Archer finds himself involved with Solomon, a fisherman who was kidnapped and forced into slavery. Solomon was forced to work in the diamond mining fields under the command of a cruel fearless leader named Captain Poisen. When Captain Poison captures all of these innocent people, many men, women, and children were separated from their families and normal lives. The rebel group that captured Solomon and his family was called the Revolutionary United Front (RUF)(BloodDiamonds). The RUF used the diamonds they forced their slaves to mine to support their war, they would trade the blooddiamonds for guns and armed weapons.
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...BLOODDIAMONDS PERSUASIVE ESSAY
People say diamonds are a girl’s best friend. A friend that makes you happy and proud to have- but can you really trust them? What if you little “friend” on your dainty little finger not only cost a ridiculous amount of money but also cost the lives of innocent people? That would really make you reconsider buying a diamond and make you reconsider whom you trust. See, you really have to be careful where your sparkly, little gem comes from. Do you have any idea what it took just to make it to North America? Well, chances are 1000’s of children were killed or captured, people were torn away from their families and over 2.2 billion dollars were used just to smuggle those diamonds into developed countries. Honestly, is it really worth it?
Roughly around 4.5 million innocent people have died from being a part of the blooddiamond industry and the RUF is to blame. The Revolutionary United Front has invaded countries, amputated citizens’ limbs, forcefully made people mine for diamonds and captured young children and trained them to be child soldiers. What if one of the humans you spawned was indeed captured by this gruesome and violent group of people? He or she would either be trained to become a vicious beast on a battlefield or used for sexual favours, rape and molestation. Pure greed is the cause of all this....

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BloodDiamondBloodDiamond is a movie that portrays the brutalities experienced by the people in Africa especially those who work in the diamond fields. It was set during the Sierra Leone Civil War in 1999. A fisherman named Solomon Vandy was captured by the rebels and was force to work in a diamond field. While working, he found a very rare pinkdiamond. He decided to hide it but the leader named Commander Poison saw him. Luckily he managed to escape because the government troops attack the field. He was brought in prison where Commander Poison keeps on shouting at him to give up the diamond. Danny Archer, an Anglo ex-mercenary from Rhodesia who was caught smuggling diamonds, heard the conversation. He helped Solomon’s release from prison and promised to help find Solomon’s family in exchange for the diamond. They were now set to a quest to find the diamond that can both change their lives. Later in the movie, they found out that Solomon’s son Dia was captured and brainwash by the RUF. They tried to save Dia and escape but Archer was shot and was unable to proceed. He told Solomon to go on with out him and gave them the diamond. He called Maddy Bowen, a journalist and also his love interest, for a favor and took one good look at his homeland before...

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BloodDiamonds
Have you ever looked down at your ring and wondered where it came from or how it was mined? On your very finger may be the reason why a war was started in Africa. There are regulations to try and keep these diamonds out of the market but these regulations have loopholes in which these diamonds enter the United States. In discussions of diamonds, one controversial issue has been whether or not should be sold in the United States. On the one hand, supporters contend that the sale of blooddiamonds have funded wars that have supplied arms that have killed millions of people. On the other hand, critics argue that the revenue from the sale of diamonds have provided health care and have improved society as a whole in Africa. My own view is that blooddiamonds shouldn't be sold in the United states because rebel groups around the world have used the money from the sales of these diamonds to fuel wars and because how poorly the Kimberly Process is to filter out blooddiamonds.
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...did Danny Archer become involved in the diamond trade?
He grew up in a country driven by war. He saw his parents being inhumanely murdered when he was but a child. Growing up he saw nothing but hatred and despair anywhere he turned. In his adolescence he was a soldier, an outstanding one. In many of the years of his adulthood he saw that there was some money to be made, working as a mercenary. This is precisely what he did. He sold weapons to the rebellion group, RUF, in exchange for treasured gemstones, diamonds, which he smuggled across the border, to Liberia.
Task 2
At the beginning of the film, Danny only seems to care about himself. At the end of the film, however, he is willing to protect Solomon. What do you think led to this change of heart?
Both Solomon and Danny have gone through their fair share of predicaments, on their turbulent road to “salvation”, or independence, out of that godforsaken, desolated wasteland. They could both share the sensation condemned by their actions. They started out as business associates, but their partnership had over conflicts, wretchedness and dejection evolved into a friendship.
Task 3
What does the diamond represent or mean to the different characters in the movie?
For Solomon, this rock represents freedom, a ticket out of Sierra Leone. A fresh start for him and his family, no longer having to live in an area driven by war. For the colonel, and to some...

...may seem simple when you first begin to make your decision and analyze each movie you have seen throughout your lifetime. Wait, think about how the many factors that can really “make or break” any film before you make you final choice. For example, the film’s plot, character choice, believability, and special effects can all make a complete difference. These few differences can make you feel whether or not a movie deserves or is lacking credibility to be titled as number one. One movie that truly deserves this title is BloodDiamond.
In BloodDiamond the director Edward Zwick was very smart when strategizing how each and every scene would play out in the film. He made thorough decisions on which moves each character should make and how the interactions among them would be in each scene. All of this planning was done for the sake of clearly understanding the story. The transitions in the film also easily made you feel as if you are part of the diamond trade itself. Piece by piece Zwick was able to prove to you how dangerous life can be in the continent of Africa, especially the war torn country of Sierra Leone. The compelling film pulls you into this dark industry head first and keeps you intrigued every step of the way.
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...Would you buy a BloodDiamond? Stylistic Analysis
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July 14, 2011
The movie BloodDiamond is an action/adventure and drama movie. It was shot all around Mozambique to give off the scenery of Sierra Leone. The movie shows different villages in different scenarios, with rich natural colors like brown, green, red etc. The cities are portrayed as hectic and intimidating, dirty and poor. The actors in the movie are dressed in neutral colored clothes which are dirty and torn. The clothes give off the sign that the people are having a hard time in the country. The lighting in the movie is very bright. It portrays Sierra Leona in a way that makes the audience feel like they are living it. The actors portray the character wonderfully, showing what happens during civil wars in Africa and how diamond mines effect the people living there.
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